1550349Notebook c.1808-1811 64. Great things are done when Men & Mountains meetWilliam Blake

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Blake manuscript - Notebook - page 043

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GREAT things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
 

The original text:[2] edit

 
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Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet
This is not Done by jostling in the Street

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Notes edit

  1. The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem; edited with an introduction and textual notes by John Sampson, Hon. D.Litt. Oxon., 1862–1931. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1908.
  2. "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 511.

 

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